[Kypreos] New Maple Leafs GM’s first order of business: the John Tavares contract problem
May 25, 2023
[Kypreos] New Maple Leafs GM’s first order of business: the John Tavares contract problem
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>They might have to start by revisiting the two years remaining on Tavares’s deal. If this is where all the issues started, it may be the place to begin fixing them. It could get ugly quickly for the new GM, who might have to ask the 14-year veteran — who holds a no-move clause and told reporters after his team’s second-round playoff exit to the Florida Panthers that “my intention is to be here” — to think about being somewhere else. > >With the ability to have multiple teams pick up portions of his contract, it is possible to increase the Leafs’ cap space by moving a good portion of the $22 million owed to the 32-year-old over the next two seasons. With his point-a-game production, he could clearly help a dozen desperate teams make the playoffs. The freedom of losing that contract would also allow the new GM to reset the pecking order in the dressing room with Matthews, Marner and Nylander at the top.
How realistic is this do you think?
I mean what can the new GM do? JT has a full NMC
Edit: you can ask him to waive and even if that works, is his contract even tradable? Would we get something in return that makes us competitive, or is it just a cap dump where we just get burned anyway?
New GM: John will you waive for any team?
JT: No
New GM: K
What problem? Defensively sound leader who is great at face offs and produces at near ppg. Guy bleeds for this team. Next Issue, please.
JT isn’t going anywhere.
It’s a difficult discussion because it’s basically just about money. Tavares production as a second line center is really good actually, but the cap hit is bad. If his play had fallen off you can have a discussion along the lines of “hey, look the vision of team we have would see you moving down the lineup and seeing reduced minutes. Are you comfortable with that or would you want us to explore a new destination?” But he’s produced enough that the discussion would really only be about money. The team signed him to the deal, made him captain, and he’s pretty much lived up to his end of it. It’s hard to ask him to waive his NMC because they don’t like the price now.
Kypreos lives in his own little world if he think JT is going anywhere
Not happening
Making Tavares the scapegoat is wrong for a thousand reasons. It’s not fair, for starters. JT is still a top forward in the league.
And it would put a chill on trying to negotiate with any top FA you’re trying to sign. JT left money on the table to sign at home, yet a few years later he’s a big problem and is going to be pressured to okay a trade? Terrible optics.
This is maybe something you float with Tavares next summer. Or at the trade deadline if the Leafs collapse next season. It would look awful to try this right now, especially with contracts also looming for other key players.
Thus guy is a point a game player sound defensively and a good leader. He’s not perfect at everything and overpaid by 2m that’s no a reason to trade him.
If I never read another article from kyper it’d be too soon. He’s out to lunch on every single on of his takes. This is why sn didn’t keep him around. Dudes so far up his own ass he has no idea what’s going on
Put Tavares on the wing. Wouldn’t even ask him waive his no trade clause. Guy took less money to play here. He’s not worth 11 mill anymore but that’s always the risk you take when signing a big free agent for term when the latter years of the contact are in their 30s.
That’s not even AN order of business let alone the FIRST order of business.
just a question
can we not tell if JT if he waives his NMC, we will offer a very rich executive job once he retires?
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>They might have to start by revisiting the two years remaining on Tavares’s deal. If this is where all the issues started, it may be the place to begin fixing them. It could get ugly quickly for the new GM, who might have to ask the 14-year veteran — who holds a no-move clause and told reporters after his team’s second-round playoff exit to the Florida Panthers that “my intention is to be here” — to think about being somewhere else.
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>With the ability to have multiple teams pick up portions of his contract, it is possible to increase the Leafs’ cap space by moving a good portion of the $22 million owed to the 32-year-old over the next two seasons. With his point-a-game production, he could clearly help a dozen desperate teams make the playoffs. The freedom of losing that contract would also allow the new GM to reset the pecking order in the dressing room with Matthews, Marner and Nylander at the top.
How realistic is this do you think?
I mean what can the new GM do? JT has a full NMC
Edit: you can ask him to waive and even if that works, is his contract even tradable? Would we get something in return that makes us competitive, or is it just a cap dump where we just get burned anyway?
New GM: John will you waive for any team?
JT: No
New GM: K
What problem? Defensively sound leader who is great at face offs and produces at near ppg. Guy bleeds for this team. Next Issue, please.
JT isn’t going anywhere.
It’s a difficult discussion because it’s basically just about money. Tavares production as a second line center is really good actually, but the cap hit is bad. If his play had fallen off you can have a discussion along the lines of “hey, look the vision of team we have would see you moving down the lineup and seeing reduced minutes. Are you comfortable with that or would you want us to explore a new destination?” But he’s produced enough that the discussion would really only be about money. The team signed him to the deal, made him captain, and he’s pretty much lived up to his end of it. It’s hard to ask him to waive his NMC because they don’t like the price now.
Kypreos lives in his own little world if he think JT is going anywhere
Not happening
Making Tavares the scapegoat is wrong for a thousand reasons. It’s not fair, for starters. JT is still a top forward in the league.
And it would put a chill on trying to negotiate with any top FA you’re trying to sign. JT left money on the table to sign at home, yet a few years later he’s a big problem and is going to be pressured to okay a trade? Terrible optics.
This is maybe something you float with Tavares next summer. Or at the trade deadline if the Leafs collapse next season. It would look awful to try this right now, especially with contracts also looming for other key players.
Thus guy is a point a game player sound defensively and a good leader. He’s not perfect at everything and overpaid by 2m that’s no a reason to trade him.
If I never read another article from kyper it’d be too soon. He’s out to lunch on every single on of his takes. This is why sn didn’t keep him around. Dudes so far up his own ass he has no idea what’s going on
Put Tavares on the wing. Wouldn’t even ask him waive his no trade clause. Guy took less money to play here. He’s not worth 11 mill anymore but that’s always the risk you take when signing a big free agent for term when the latter years of the contact are in their 30s.
That’s not even AN order of business let alone the FIRST order of business.
just a question
can we not tell if JT if he waives his NMC, we will offer a very rich executive job once he retires?
handshake deal?
how can the league prove it? no one would know